History as MysteryCity Lights Publishers, 22. avg. 2016 - 304 strani In a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-marketed historical myths. He shows how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege. And he demonstrates how historians are influenced by the professional and class environment in which they work. Pursuing themes ranging from antiquity to modern times, from the Inquisition and Joan of Arc to the anti-labor bias of present-day history books, History as Mystery demonstrates how past and present can inform each other and how history can be a truly exciting and engaging subject. "Michael Parenti, always provocative and eloquent, gives us a lively as well as valuable critique of orthodoxy posing as 'history.'"—Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States "Deserves to become an instant classic."—Bertell Ollman, author of Dialectical Investigations "Those who keep secret the past, and lie about it, condemn us to repeat it. Michael Parenti unveils the history of falsified history, from the early Christian church to the present: a fascinating, darkly revelatory tale."—Daniel Ellsberg, author of The Pentagon Papers "Solid if surely controversial stuff."—Kirkus |
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... SLAVES Triumph of the One True Faith Silencing the Pagans Accepting the Powers that Be Affluent Believers Saints For Slavery 3 BISHOPS AND BARBARIANS, JEZEBELS AND JEWS The Myth of the Devout Peasant The Curse of Eve The Burning of ...
... Slavery to Freedom (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1967); Staughton Lynd, Class Conflict, Slavery and the United States Constitution (Indianapolis: BobbsMerrill, 1976); Nell Irvin Painter, The Narrative of Hosea Hudson, His Life as a Negro ...
... slavery through a good part of U.S. history? Why were they not given any land to till after their emancipation? Why were Native American Indians systematically massacred time and again? § What is property in the context of American ...
... slavery; (b) minimize the brutality of the chattel system and the extent of slave resistance; (c) make no mention ... slaves—who proved to be efficient farmers on the relatively rare occasions they were given land. Instead, the texts ...
... slavery are treated but not the underlying class exploitation of African labor or, for that matter, the exploitation of any labor. The role played by Communists during the Great Depression in the fight for industrial unionism ...